After a few tough quarters, Nvidia is finally out of the red. The company has posted $107.6 million in net profits for the third quarter of its 2010 fiscal year (ended on October 25), contrasting with sizable losses in its fiscal Q2, fiscal Q1, and the...
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Early Windows 7 unit sales beat Vista's by 234%
So far, the hype surrounding Windows 7 has been much more positive than what accompanied Windows Vista. Has all the upbeat chatter translated into higher popularity? Yes, according to early numbers from NPD. The research firm writes that, in the United States, unit sales of boxed Windows 7 copies eclipsed...
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Dell Adamo XPS has Core 2 Duo, costs $1,799
After last month's teaser announcement, Dell has finally spilled the beans about its unusual-looking Adamo XPS laptop. The PC maker expects to start selling the sleek ultraportable "in time for the holidays" at a starting price of $1,799. Specs-wise, the Adamo XPS packs a 13.4" "high-definition" display, a low-voltage...
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Could low-power 'Fusion' CPUs be built on a 40-nm bulk process?
The last AMD roadmap we saw described Ontario, a 32-nm "accelerated processing unit" with two cores, 1MB of cache, support for DDR3 memory, and a built-in graphics processor. We haven't heard much about this future product since then, but today, Fudzilla claims AMD now intends to build that...
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Epic lets devs make standalone Unreal Engine 3 titles for free
id Software often gets credit for opening the source code of old game engines a few years after their release. Epic Games has now pulled a comparable feat, except with two major differences: the new Unreal Development Kit doesn't include game-engine source code, but it does give developers all of...
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Tight Radeon HD 5000-series supply may be causing delays
At this point, it's pretty clear that AMD's Radeon HD 5800-series graphics cards are in short supply—especially the 5850. What you may not know is that, according to DigiTimes, this scarceness has forced both PC makers and AMD to rejigger their roadmaps. DigiTimes writes that tight supply "has caused...
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Toshiba crams 320GB into new 1.8-inch hard drive
Hard-drive makers don't just ramp capacities in their 3.5" and 2.5" products—teeny 1.8" drives are also quietly growing in storage density. This morning, Toshiba announced a new 1.8" mechanical hard drive lineup, the MK3233GSG series, which combines capacities...
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